{"id":1947,"date":"2012-03-01T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:19:55","slug":"listening-post-theyre-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/03\/01\/listening-post-theyre-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post: They’re the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The kids, that is. As a result of the Knight Challenge grant, there have been a lot of young faces around NCPR these days. So I watched the Colbert Report<\/em> with some interest the other night when I heard the guest would be Ross Eisenbrey<\/a>, who says that internships are destroying the job market. All work should be paid work, he says. And he does have a point. NCPR uses a mix of interns who are paid actual money, and those who work for academic credit. Eisenbrey says that internship for credit just means that the student has to pay someone else (the college) for the privilege of working for free. But you could just as easily say that the student pays the college for teaching that the college doesn’t have to provide.<\/p>\n

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NCPR intern at work.<\/p><\/div>\n

Someone may be getting the short end of the deal, but it’s not always easy to say who that is. However the math works out for the players, it has had a big upside for the NCPR audience. Because we do not use the interns to make the coffee. We use them to create public media.<\/p>\n

On the three new videos from the recent String Fever<\/a><\/em> Radio Jam<\/a>, an intern is behind the camera, and the intro credit animation on each was done by interns last semester. The full text of our three interviews about contraception and health care policy was produced by an intern. Most produce at least one story for radio broadcast during their stay here. The Community Calendar relies on intern management, and an intern compiled and analyzed the results of our recent listener survey. Our interns are active on our Facebook and Tumblr pages, and on Twitter, helping expand our social media presence. Another intern is writing code to deliver playlist data for our Public Radio Remix station, WREM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And best, our interns sometimes move on to professional positions in public media. Case in point is Sarah Harris, former paid NCPR intern and current Champlain Valley stringer for NCPR. She produced today’s interview with a young Catholic woman<\/a> about balancing faith and sexuality. She also has produced a piece for Slate and NPR with veteran reporter Howard Berkes, and made her first independent sale to NPR with her piece last week on ice sailing on Lake Champlain<\/a>. Congratulations Sarah, and thanks to all the NCPR interns. Let me make you a cup of coffee some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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